Five Years Quotes

Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

Comrade life, let us march faster, March faster through what's left of the five-year plan.

I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.

We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

I used to go to the supermarket dressed as Peter Pan when I was about five years old.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?" It's essentially me talking myself out of being a crybaby indie rock butthead.

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer.

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.

The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.'

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.

Well, I hate to tell youbut if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies

At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

I'm not the same girl I was five years ago. Hopefully, with the choices I'm making people will start to see that I'm not just little Gabriella.

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'